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Anger is rising over the dumping of untreated sewage into the UK’s rivers and seas. The situation attracted international attention at the end of March during the famous Oxford- Cambridge Boat Race. Rowers were warned about potentially dangerous E. coli bacteria in the River Thames ahead of the event. A combination of agricultural runoff and sewage spills now mean the UK is ranked among some of the worst countries in Europe for bathing water quality. Why have its rivers and seas ended up in this state? Why has sewage pollution got so bad in the UK?Many campaigners track the problem back to the...
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From this October, a section of the Juliana Canal in Limburg, stretching between Berg aan de Maas and Born, will be dried up for the following six-month. In order for repair works to be carried out. This 2.5 mile stretch has caused outrage among skippers, as the alternative route takes two days, with an estimated additional expenses of 4 million euros per day. Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands see inflation rates slipThe detour directs ships via the lock at Limmel, Maastricht, and through Antwerp, where renovations are also underway. Belgian authorities suggest a circumnavigation route via...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Train enthusiast Joe Biden unveiled a $8.2 billion plan Friday to get America's creaking rail network back on track, including its first ever high-speed link between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States. But the US president, who used the train between his Delaware home and Washington so much as a US senator that he was nicknamed "Amtrak Joe," visited Las Vegas to announce a series of federally funded rail upgrades. "You have no idea how much this pleases me," Bide...
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The federal government is preparing to give $6.88 billion for the construction of a second rail tunnel under the Hudson River to New York City. This will mark the biggest investment ever put into a mass-transit project. The investment is part of the infrastructure project Gateway. The new tunnel would offer an improved method of transportation, in comparison to the single-track tunnels that opened in 1910 and have since deteriorated. Though the pandemic has reduced the number of New Jersey commuters arriving at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, travel has been increasing since 2020, and offic...
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President Joe Biden has announced a $292 million grant in order to build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River, which would provide an additional route of travel between New York City and New Jersey. He spoke from the construction site itself and is seeking to provide a compromise between his economic vision and that of the GOP. The grant comes from the $1 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last year. “This tunnel opened for business in 1910, 113 years ago,” Biden said. “And the structure is literally deteriorating. The roof is leaking, the floor is sinking. Plus, it was badly ...
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New York (AFP) - Long before Superstorm Sandy devastated New York City and the surrounding region in 2012, scientist Klaus Jacob issued a prophetic report warning city leaders that such paralyzing flooding was imminent. Then Sandy made landfall on October 29 of that year, leaving well over 100 people dead in the United States, including 43 New York City residents. It caused $19 billion in damages across the metropolis, triggering lengthy power outages, temporarily displacing thousands of people and damaging tens of thousands of residential units. More than two feet of water flooded into Jacob'...
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One billion dollars is set to be awarded to 85 airports across the U.S. in an effort by President Joe Biden’s administration to upgrade America’s aging infrastructure. The large sum comes from the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill meant to repair much of the crumbling infrastructure across the U.S. The bill is intended to improve roads, highways and bridges. The funds will be given to the Federal Aviation Administration and the agency will direct the funds to the 85 airports across the U.S for repairs of terminals and runways. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg praised the pla...
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Pittsburgh (AFP) - A bridge collapse Friday in Pittsburgh provided a symbolic backdrop for President Joe Biden's trip to the city to tout his $1 trillion infrastructure plan -- and try rebuilding his own crumbling approval ratings. Arriving in the gritty city in Pennsylvania -- a key battleground state in presidential elections -- Biden motorcaded straight from Air Force One to the road bridge, which hours earlier had buckled into a snowy ravine. "There are literally more bridges in Pittsburgh than in any other city in the world," the Democrat pronounced. "And we're going to fix them all. Not ...
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A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed around 7 a.m. this morning, injuring 10 people. None of them sustained life-threatening injuries, officials said. The collapse happened hours before President Joe Biden was slated to arrive discuss infrastructure. Darryl Jones, the Pittsburgh fire chief, said that three to four cars and a bus were on the bridge during the time of the collapse. They were rescued as emergency responders repelled down and used a daisy chain to pull victims back up. Sources also reported a strong smell of natural gas in the area, and officials later found a gas leak was caused by the ...
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Washington (AFP) - A bridge collapsed early Friday in Pittsburgh, hours before US President Joe Biden was due in the city to give a speech touting his $1-trillion plan to fix America's worn-out infrastructure. Pittsburgh's public safety authorities tweeted that three people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after the road bridge buckled into a snowy ravine. The otherwise minor accident immediately caught national attention because Biden was set to touch down in the industrial city shortly for a speech promoting his efforts to reset the post-pandemic US economy, including thr...
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